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Roy Wood Jr.
Hey, podcast listeners. Roy Wood Jr. Here, and I want to tell you about my new stand up comedy special. It's hoolarious and it's streaming now on Hulu. I did this special because the world has lost connection. We don't interact like we used to. You won't talk with your mom on the phone for 10 minutes, but you'll listen to a stranger talk on a podcast for an hour. You can listen to the podcast and call your mom that too. We all just need a little perspective. So don't miss my new stand up special, Roy Wood Jr. Lonely flowers. Now streaming on Hulu.
Dave Anthony
We're going on tour. And this is.
Gareth Reynolds
It's been a while.
Dave Anthony
March 2025 is when our tour is happening. First of all, we're going to Tempe, Arizona, maybe our favorite city of all time.
Gareth Reynolds
It's the best.
Dave Anthony
That is on March 16th. And then we go to Albuquerque, New Mexico, maybe our favorite city ever.
Gareth Reynolds
We never love the city we've ever gone to.
Dave Anthony
That's on March 17th. And then we go to Oklahoma City.
Gareth Reynolds
Which is our fav. We often say that it's our number one.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, it's our number one. The best city I've ever been to. That's on March 18th. On March 19th, we're going to be.
Gareth Reynolds
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, our favorite city, without question.
Dave Anthony
And then we head to Dallas, Texas on March 20th.
Gareth Reynolds
Our favorite city.
Dave Anthony
There's never been a better city than better.
Gareth Reynolds
If you don't like it, you're a Dallas hole.
Dave Anthony
Thank you. And then we go to Houston, Texas on March 21. City, which is by far the best city. And then we end our tour in Austin, Texas on March 22nd at the Cap City Comedy Club.
Gareth Reynolds
It's the best city in the entire world. Number one city in the world.
Dave Anthony
You can get tickets@dollar podcast.com tour.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, speaking of podcasts, that's exactly what this is. Welcome to the past times. This is the intro to the show. This is where the podcast sort of lets you know what it is so that people go, oh, okay, there's a ruse. There's a game to this. Now I'm gonna dive into it. It's called the Pastimes. You know it each. Shut up, Dave. Each week we go through newspaper. I'm being meta from a random date in history picked out by none other than the Dave Anthony. I, Gareth Reynolds, have never seen it. And neither has this week's guest, the great Jen Cobra. Thank you for coming back, Jen.
Jen Cobra
Of course. I had to get done with you guys.
Gareth Reynolds
We're a hit.
Jen Cobra
I'm glad.
Gareth Reynolds
I'm glad people loved you and. And we fell in love with you in the last episode. But even more when you revealed that you're drinking beverages from 1992. Crystal Light.
Jen Cobra
In my Wonder Woman cup.
Gareth Reynolds
In my Wonder Woman cup.
Jen Cobra
First, here's what you have to do because this keeps it cold. You have to put the crystal light. I get the single packets, snip them off with a scissor at a diagonal angle. Easier to pour? Yes.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay.
Jen Cobra
Pour into the water bottle, shake the out of it. Then I pour it into my Wonder Woman cup so it's all nice and frothy.
Gareth Reynolds
And you do a lemonade crystal light. And for those of us who thought crystal light just sort of pink lemonade. For those of us who thought crystal light was gone. It's just. This is big.
Jen Cobra
It's not.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes, people. What is it running?
Jen Cobra
What's it running for now?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, I was just gonna ask what is like, what are we doing price wise?
Jen Cobra
I don't know if you remember back in the day, a box of that was about 469 and now it's 238 at the Walmart. Oh, my God.
Dave Anthony
It's going backwards.
Jen Cobra
I don't know.
Dave Anthony
Well, I don't know what to say about that. I got to be.
Jen Cobra
It's real good, y'all. If you haven't given it a taste, you need to go back in that Wayback machine.
Dave Anthony
I can't hear Gareth. Can you hear Gareth?
Jen Cobra
I can't hear Gareth either. No.
Dave Anthony
Gareth, you're a idiot. Are you muted? You know what? This is maybe the way we should do the podcast. You're listening to the past times where we read a newspaper from back in history and it's just me and.
Jen Cobra
Gareth is muted somewhere in the Ethernet.
Dave Anthony
To be fair, this is Gareth's first time podcasting, so these things can be really, really hard. Now I can hear your speak.
Gareth Reynolds
Hi.
Jen Cobra
There you are.
Dave Anthony
Okay.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes. So here's what's great, Jen. I'm going to tell you what's great, Dave. Most times people can't hear Dave with his microphone. Dave, not happy. I unplugged my microphone once. He's ready to go. He's shellacking time. Okay, you know what it is?
Jen Cobra
He's pickled.
Gareth Reynolds
He's pickled and he's advertised that very clearly.
Dave Anthony
Gareth keeps his mic too high, so it makes things hard talk to talk.
Gareth Reynolds
To Burns about whose audio is good. Whose audio isn't. Whenever.
Jen Cobra
Girls, girls, you're both pretty. You're both pretty.
Gareth Reynolds
Burns. Who's consistently got good audio and who's got problematic audio? Oh, he's gone.
Jen Cobra
What just happened there?
Gareth Reynolds
Is that anger?
Dave Anthony
Apologize.
Gareth Reynolds
What are you doing? I didn't apologize for anything.
Dave Anthony
Apologize.
Gareth Reynolds
That scared us. No, I'm not going to apologize, David. Unfortunately, we can't do it without Dave's paper, Jen.
Jen Cobra
Okay.
Gareth Reynolds
Are we good, Dave, or do we need to start?
Dave Anthony
Apologize.
Gareth Reynolds
No, I'm not going to apologize. You're saying the things that are crazy.
Dave Anthony
I can hear an echo.
Jen Cobra
I can, too.
Dave Anthony
So apologize.
Gareth Reynolds
Shit my pants. Okay, so can you hear an echo?
Dave Anthony
No, I don't hear an echo.
Jen Cobra
Now.
Dave Anthony
Now I don't hear an echo.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay. All right, we're good. Are we rolling?
Dave Anthony
Yeah. When? We will try. I just.
Gareth Reynolds
Are we going.
Dave Anthony
Nobody trusts you. At this point, I.
Gareth Reynolds
At this point, I have lost credibility. Do you think we need to redo the intro or are we.
Dave Anthony
Well, I'm sure it's fine. I'm sure Burns will be. If he can piece together my audio, he'll be able to figure it out.
Gareth Reynolds
Why are you so upset? You said the same thing to me.
Dave Anthony
What? I was listening. I couldn't hear you.
Gareth Reynolds
Jen, welcome back. I believe we've talked about Crystal Light. What can we promote for you, Jen? You have a special. Where can people find it? It's called All Flies on Me.
Jen Cobra
No Flies on Me.
Dave Anthony
So different, man. You're not coming out of the gate very well.
Gareth Reynolds
This is what cost me Late night with Seth Meyers the hosting job.
Jen Cobra
It's what? It's going very well. Is what I think it's going very well. I am. I have a special, no Flies on Me that was recorded over at Brad Garrett's club in Las Vegas. Brad Garrett produced it, so it's pretty funny. And you can see it@jencobra.com for free. Absolutely free. You just click on the little thing and it shows you the little thing.
Gareth Reynolds
Feels like quite a reveal. Yeah. I don't know. Careful. The dance didn't help, but my mother and I were watching Wheel of Fortune the other night. Things are fine. And every time this guy picked a letter, he did a little side ship shimmy that was like, dare I say rapey? And my mother and I picked up on it early and we were like, this is going to ruin the entire episode. And every time you feel like. Yeah, completely. Yeah. And then he had his way with Ryan Seacrest over the wheel.
Jen Cobra
Well, that. That Ryan Seacrest loves to bend over a wheel.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, that's why he says Seacrest out All right, so, Jen, you know what we do on this show? We're raising money for ourselves. And. And we are going to go through a newspaper. You heard the intro. You get to pick what year you think it is. You'll take a guess? I will definitely take a guess. Even though there have been more acts of war committed in my direction lately. Even with that. What you. It could be. I. It could be 1700s, could be 2000.
Jen Cobra
It was. It was so weird last time. I can't imagine it being weird.
Gareth Reynolds
It was super weird last time, but I'll be honest, that's. It could be weirder. It could be. I don't know. It's not. Okay. What was happening in the journalism.
Jen Cobra
Let's see what. Let's see what Dave came up with.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. So pick a year as a guest. As a guest. As a guest with a guest. And then I'll go after that.
Dave Anthony
Did you. Did you do crystal meth light?
Gareth Reynolds
Crystal meth light.
Jen Cobra
Crystal light. So I'm just guessing a year is what you're telling me.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Jen Cobra
1978.
Gareth Reynolds
Great. Great work. I'm gonna go 1835.
Dave Anthony
Jen wins. It is 1869.
Gareth Reynolds
Not. But Jen, you do see why.
Jen Cobra
A great. A great year for biscuits. Isn't that the name of the biscuit company? 1869 biscuits.
Gareth Reynolds
What? Look it up.
Jen Cobra
This is Southern. 1869 was a brand of biscuits down here.
Gareth Reynolds
I. I like my favorite part of this. Look it up. You're in front of a computer. It was.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Pillsbury, 1869 biscuits. Buttermilk biscuits.
Jen Cobra
Yep. They're real good.
Dave Anthony
I do love a buttermilk biscuit. That is a good biscuit.
Jen Cobra
Here was the great thing. They made some 1869 biscuits. They were already baked, and they were in a little eight pack. You bought them already baked and you just put them in the microwave for like 15, 20 seconds. Boom. They're perfection.
Gareth Reynolds
Huh?
Dave Anthony
Oh, they were real good, but now they're gone.
Jen Cobra
Real good. They don't make them anymore. Yeah, done.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Jen Cobra
I mean, I haven't seen them in years.
Gareth Reynolds
Seventies. The seventies was the heyday.
Jen Cobra
Yep. I used to get that. Remember that squeeze margarine? I put the squeeze Margarine on the 1869.
Gareth Reynolds
I don't even remember that.
Dave Anthony
So you're a health. You're a health nut.
Gareth Reynolds
I didn't even know we were squeezing. Yeah, parquet.
Jen Cobra
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Jen Cobra
I got some in the fridge now because they still sell it in Louisiana. I'm living down in 1869. Christ, I'm gonna win this one.
Gareth Reynolds
Here we Go, Jen. You, by the way, in 20 years, you're gonna have some great lawsuits pending. Squeezing margarine. All right, well, you've won. Even though I would say you're further away than I was. But I guess about okay. I feel like only metric would be that if I were okay. It seems okay.
Dave Anthony
Well, the paper is the Southern Standard from Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Gareth Reynolds
Arkadelphia.
Jen Cobra
I've been there there. You have school there. There's a school there.
Gareth Reynolds
This show is going to be four hours. Every weird thing that said. You're like, they used to make race cars.
Jen Cobra
I just. You picked 1869 in the South. Do you hear my accent? I live here.
Gareth Reynolds
What is it called?
Dave Anthony
What city?
Jen Cobra
Arkadelphia.
Gareth Reynolds
It's like Arkansas Philadelphia.
Dave Anthony
Yeah. They were like, look, that city's fancy.
Gareth Reynolds
Let's make one.
Jen Cobra
It's also a city of brotherly love. See what it did? I did that. Thank you.
Dave Anthony
That's good. I get it. Yep. So it's February. February 13, 1869.
Gareth Reynolds
Valentine's Eve.
Jen Cobra
The day after my birthday. Yes.
Gareth Reynolds
This is all happening. This is Jen. Bingo.
Jen Cobra
Buy a lunch. Yeah, you got to go.
Dave Anthony
Well, this. Not bankrupted. If those who owe us do not make satisfactory settlement in a few days, we intend to place all our assets into the hands of the officers of the law for collection. PE Green can be found at the store of Fred Green and in whose absence Fred Green will make settlement. Come and pay as suing will be very expensive to the debtor Green and brother.
Gareth Reynolds
It's very. It's like an email.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, it is like an email.
Gareth Reynolds
It's not like a. It's not like the first story in a paper.
Dave Anthony
No.
Jen Cobra
Well, it's. That's how they had to serve people back then, I bet was to just.
Gareth Reynolds
Print it just like, whatever.
Jen Cobra
Say you're looking for them and that they better pay you this. And that's how you.
Gareth Reynolds
This paper has one edition. Clark. You.
Jen Cobra
Had Lewis and Clark gotten there? I don't think Clark was a name yet. They're still on the colors. They got green. Next is gonna be brown and white, black. They haven't gotten to the Clarks yet. Jesus. That was when they started jobs. Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
That's why it was so hard to name roads back then. They were like, language is not ready for mass. Every town is a main.
Jen Cobra
I'm telling you, down here. Some of these smaller towns down here just number the streets. We got 1, 2, 3.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Jen Cobra
One southeast, two southeast, three south. They just numbered.
Gareth Reynolds
I don't.
Jen Cobra
The odd ones go this way. The even ones.
Gareth Reynolds
I don't hate it. I don't hate it. No. As someone who's lost constantly, you think.
Dave Anthony
That would help you be less lost? I think it would make you more lost.
Gareth Reynolds
I think I'm just meant to be lost.
Dave Anthony
Gareth, do you even know the difference between six and seven?
Gareth Reynolds
I know that. Seven, eight, nine, Boom.
Jen Cobra
Boom. Talk about the Wayback Machine. That was a good one. That was a fourth grade joke.
Gareth Reynolds
I'm in a lot of debt, Jen. They're gonna take my fingers.
Jen Cobra
The Greens.
Gareth Reynolds
The Greens are.
Dave Anthony
An Austrian dramatic author, Mr. Sasha Massage, has written a play, our Slaves, the leading idea of which is men's rights.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, my God.
Jen Cobra
Men's rights.
Gareth Reynolds
1869. Jordan Peterson, just the like.
Dave Anthony
Oh, God. There were even divorced dudes in 1869.
Gareth Reynolds
Just wearing his weird riddler suits, just like you see, the male psyche is also under attack. Okay, I know we have literal slaves. Women are not allowed to leave the house. But the real victim of society is the man. The man is not able to do what he wants. The other day, I punched a woman for looking at me strange, and some friends told me I was out of line. What year is this, I ask you? So that's what the play is inspired by.
Dave Anthony
His argument is that in our society, the husband is a slave of the wife for whom he must. He must work at his desk, in his office, etc, while she leads a truly Olympian life.
Jen Cobra
You know what it is? He married a narcissist. He married a narcissist who's like, you get in there and you work. If you want this, you get in that office and you work.
Gareth Reynolds
I do.
Jen Cobra
You don't come out. You don't come out.
Gareth Reynolds
A bunch of money, but I've got the pussy.
Jen Cobra
No, you need to have this.
Gareth Reynolds
It's as my place.
Jen Cobra
I'm going to go live the most Olympian life in the living room.
Dave Anthony
In.
Jen Cobra
Our home, in the parlor. So I'll be here.
Gareth Reynolds
He's at a psychiatrist. So she set up an American Gladiator arena in the living room and told me if I wanted a pussy, I needed. I needed to go to the work.
Jen Cobra
To write letters with a quill pen.
Gareth Reynolds
I needed to quit. So.
Jen Cobra
God.
Gareth Reynolds
It's. What's also amazing is that the wife was probably like, well, I'll go work. And he was like, not an option woman.
Dave Anthony
Wait. His plan of reform is to liberate man by giving women work and culture.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, wow.
Jen Cobra
He was the first feminist. Really.
Dave Anthony
Progressive.
Jen Cobra
Yes.
Gareth Reynolds
It's called a woman's right to choose. For the man, they're like, you idiot. Okay.
Dave Anthony
All right. An incident in a justice's court. A few days since proceedings were commenced in the court of his honor, Judge H. Yeah, see, they.
Jen Cobra
They're just going through the letters now.
Dave Anthony
Just. H Against a defaulting.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, I thought that was the first. There's the name. Completely.
Dave Anthony
That's the whole name.
Gareth Reynolds
Judge H. Okay.
Dave Anthony
Judge H. Against a defaulting tenant. The plaintiff in the case was a venerable lady who transacts her own business and dispenses with the services of an agent. The defendant, an unredeemable scamp, fond of liquor and is always under its influence. He likes to party.
Gareth Reynolds
That's scampi. That's.
Dave Anthony
That's.
Gareth Reynolds
To me what a scamp is. Yeah, That's a town drug medical scamp.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
A rascal with the booze.
Jen Cobra
Yeah, I like that. He. That they said she was venerable. So she's a lady and he's the tramp.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. Yes, legally. From Judge H.
Dave Anthony
By accident, the parties met in the judge's office the day before.
Gareth Reynolds
That's super weird.
Dave Anthony
The trial. The tenant.
Gareth Reynolds
Accident.
Dave Anthony
The tenant to. Yeah. By accident. The tenant, to use a homely expression, was evidently disguised in liquor.
Gareth Reynolds
I.
Jen Cobra
Liquor. You brought her.
Gareth Reynolds
And we'll be right back. I love saying in disguise of liquor.
Dave Anthony
That's how I'm gonna say it from now on.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Jen Cobra
That's amazing. Before the case.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Dave Anthony
Yeah. I don't know why, but, yeah, they did.
Jen Cobra
You do know why.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes, you do.
Jen Cobra
That's what happened to judges A through G. Yeah. That's how they got to Judge H. The A through G. They all. They all kept drinking with the clock.
Gareth Reynolds
And now it's Judge A. A. We've gone through the Alphabet twice. Twice.
Dave Anthony
He staggered around the room as if his legs would certainly give way. And the spectators expected every moment to see him reel and tumble to the floor.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, it's awesome.
Dave Anthony
His voice was or appeared to be drunk, and his utterance was thick and slow.
Gareth Reynolds
It's so weird to tiptoe around alcoholism in this era.
Dave Anthony
Right?
Gareth Reynolds
Like, everyone's drunk.
Jen Cobra
That's how the Arkansas accent happened. It was drunk Austrians. And I started talking like bears that I was drunk.
Gareth Reynolds
I'll have one more whiskey.
Jen Cobra
That's what drunk Austrian sounds like. That's what you don't know.
Gareth Reynolds
And then I was basically. He should not be driving. He's Austrian.
Dave Anthony
But this was not perceived by the lady who. What is that? Wrathful at. His treatment of her was only auctious. What? The auctions to express her mind to one who appeared so little sensible of her claims. I don't know what that means. Let's just move on.
Gareth Reynolds
Sure.
Dave Anthony
With this subject in view, she strode up to her tenant and thrusting the sharp point of her spectacled nose in close proximity to his face, demanded, and so you won't pay me, sir? In a voice that, like her personal must be person, was angular and sharp. Eh, ma'am? Me, what say ye?
Gareth Reynolds
This is the drunk guy trying to defend himself in a court of law over tenants rights or something.
Jen Cobra
This is how it's written.
Dave Anthony
Yeah. He's obviously not just not paying his rent.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes.
Dave Anthony
Hey, ma'am, He. What you say?
Jen Cobra
He.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, the stenographer.
Jen Cobra
Like, this is where the accent came from, what he signed. Huh?
Gareth Reynolds
Ma'am, ma'am, please, decorum.
Jen Cobra
It's one word at a time.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, sheesh.
Jen Cobra
Shucks.
Dave Anthony
I say you are a selfish man. A brute, sir. And again the sharp nose was thrust into his face while the head of the irate dame bobbed spitefully. He stopped paying his rent to her. He's making it sound like she's.
Jen Cobra
Plus, she's got that pointy nose. Once you have a square nose, you've done for.
Gareth Reynolds
And I also love. This is pre bailiff. Because everyone's like, well, it looks like you're gonna beat the. Out of each other.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, well, let him go. Let him go.
Roy Wood Jr.
This is.
Jen Cobra
This is pre names. We just have Judge H. We've only go. We don't even have full name people running.
Gareth Reynolds
But I like that. I like the idea that the two could sort of mix it up from their own little tables a little bit. She can get his face, you know, it'd be a little more nfle. I'm into it.
Dave Anthony
Okay.
Jen Cobra
I like that she has the spectacles that you hold, right?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jen Cobra
That's what a lady she is.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, no, I definitely think that that.
Jen Cobra
Was the first picture I picture. Madam. The puppet. Madam. Do you remember Madam?
Gareth Reynolds
No.
Dave Anthony
Yes.
Jen Cobra
Yes. Thank you.
Dave Anthony
Dad, you don't know Madam? Gareth. Madam was the one. Did you ever watch Solid Gold when the guy died. When the guy died.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, my God. What is this?
Dave Anthony
When the puppet is this. Hold on, Gareth. When he.
Gareth Reynolds
I'd rather not.
Dave Anthony
Okay, now type in. What's her name? The puppet?
Gareth Reynolds
Madam.
Dave Anthony
Type in Madam. And. And car.
Gareth Reynolds
And car.
Dave Anthony
Because I believe this is the puppet that when the puppeteer died, he left money so the puppet would be driven around in a car for years.
Gareth Reynolds
Looking at the puppeteer, I'm not trying to be rude, but he definitely banged It Madame puppet and the car left to her.
Dave Anthony
Oh, maybe it's a different maybe it's a different maybe. Think of a different puppet.
Jen Cobra
I'm confusing.
Gareth Reynolds
All right, how about this? I'll go with you on this one. Following flowers death. The Star tabloid reported madam was buried with him.
Dave Anthony
Oh.
Gareth Reynolds
Flowers bequeath the puppets and his estate to a friend. Oh. Manager and ultimately his caregiver. But he wasn't buried with it. That was fake.
Jen Cobra
Oh, God. That was weird.
Gareth Reynolds
That was weird for sure. I never seen this puppet before.
Dave Anthony
There was a guy who puppet was hysterical.
Gareth Reynolds
It's not okay.
Dave Anthony
That was a funny. That puppet had some quips, man.
Jen Cobra
That puppet had. Had jokes. Yo.
Gareth Reynolds
That puppet is still around.
Dave Anthony
I thought you said.
Gareth Reynolds
No, that was a rumor in the start. I'm just looking at a drawing of the puppet with Elon Musk. I should stop looking at the puppet.
Dave Anthony
Well, yeah, it's not. Honestly, it's a. It's a scary. It's a scary puppet.
Gareth Reynolds
Are you saying I should have a puppet? Am I picking up on that? Okay.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, it's. It's time. It's time to take your phase is level.
Gareth Reynolds
Huh? Yeah.
Jen Cobra
I have. I have pictured you with your hand up somebody's ass for a long time.
Gareth Reynolds
You're doing a podcast with him.
Jen Cobra
The puppet.
Gareth Reynolds
Dave's so mad. He dropped out of focus.
Dave Anthony
I know.
Gareth Reynolds
What's up with that?
Dave Anthony
That's worse.
Jen Cobra
Oh, my God.
Gareth Reynolds
Madam, the puppet is awesome.
Dave Anthony
Okay, so these tourists. These two are still talking in the judge's chambers. Don't you come so close, ma'am. Don't you come so close with your nose. Your nose is long, ma'am. And sharp. Awful sharp.
Jen Cobra
That's a way of. That's. That's whistle dog. Whistleblowing right there.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, that is. Yep. Winky winky.
Jen Cobra
And.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, yeah, you all know who I'm talking about. They're right here in our city of Arkadelphia. Or as I call it, Philly Saw.
Dave Anthony
Philly saw would have been so much better.
Gareth Reynolds
It's right there.
Dave Anthony
Philly.
Jen Cobra
Philly saw is what I am now gonna call it.
Dave Anthony
My nose, you brute. Is not as long as your conscience. No, just. Just. But I don't want to spy Spider Man. You see, I'm drunk, and I don't want to spite your nose. Spoil my nose.
Jen Cobra
Sir, that's Arkansas right there. They tell you that they're drunk. Like you didn't know. I love been drinking. Yeah, we can tell. Paw, Paw, get back in your trailer. We know. Like. But. But they don't I don't want to give anything away, but I've had a couple of beers.
Gareth Reynolds
I'm about to tip my hand in the direction that might shock some of you in this. I've developed a bad drinking habit over the past two to six years.
Jen Cobra
I might have a problem.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, what if I told you I was on a blackout? What did you think about that? Like a constable revealing a murderous problem. I am fucking hammered out of my titties.
Jen Cobra
I'm shitface.
Gareth Reynolds
I've been shitfaced the whole time. Your wieners caught your zipper. That's right. Some of y'all are playing checkers. I've been playing Risk mixed with Battleship the whole time. What? I don't know.
Dave Anthony
Oh, no.
Gareth Reynolds
Okie dokie. He's talking to a pinata.
Dave Anthony
Oh, my God. So she says, spoil my nose. Sir, would you strike me, sir, answer me, sir, am I to apprehend personal violence? And again, the offending pro. I don't know what that word is. Was thrust into the fellow's face.
Gareth Reynolds
Where's the goddamn judge? I don't know.
Dave Anthony
No one's here.
Gareth Reynolds
The judge is like, this is pretty good.
Dave Anthony
I mean, at one point, it's inspecting, so there's people watching, is enjoying a drink.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, yeah.
Jen Cobra
Little moonshine. And he's just kicked back, maybe eating a biscuit.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, could be this is the year they were invented.
Dave Anthony
No violence, ma'am. But you see, ma'am, I'm drunk. I acknowledge the corn. And you're no beauty I ain't to be deceived, ma'am. You ain't no beauty I Surprising the woman I can bear makes me sick Sort of roused my stomach, ma'am. And when my stomach's round, ma'am, I.
Gareth Reynolds
Flings up, wow, that's good. End. Good closing argument. The jury's like, wow, that's pretty good.
Jen Cobra
What could rent have been like, five, eight dollars? Yeah, like, this is all. This is all for, like, a little bag of change.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jen Cobra
This seems like a lot of abuse to take. Let this drunk just live where he lives.
Gareth Reynolds
And I acknowledge the corn. I'm wondering if that is like a way of saying drunk, maybe.
Dave Anthony
I acknowledge the I'm drunk as corn is alcohol.
Gareth Reynolds
No, no, acknowledge the corn is an expression to admit the truth of an issue or confess a charge. Okay, well, I acknowledge the corn.
Dave Anthony
We should start saying that should come back. That's a great. That's like.
Gareth Reynolds
Most of what this guy said is pretty good. Could be brought.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, yeah, he's not all right. I acknowledge the corn.
Gareth Reynolds
I found a bra in your suitcase. I acknowledge the corn. I'll acknowledge this corn for you.
Dave Anthony
Yes, it is. Needless to say, the nose was hastily withdrawn and the gentleman with the riled.
Gareth Reynolds
Stomach went his way like Pinocchio.
Jen Cobra
He's got bubble guts from being drunk and she's got a big nose.
Gareth Reynolds
This is a bad combo. And I like the way that he's just sort of like, I understand you have a condition, a big fat nose. She's like, it's just a thing. I understand you're different than the rest of us. You have a witch's face. The right there on the side. You got a couple corns.
Jen Cobra
That's a cob.
Gareth Reynolds
Or is that your nose, sir? The judge is like, what's my role? Remind me what I do. That's a solid opener.
Jen Cobra
Yeah, That's a great opening art. That's the front page.
Gareth Reynolds
That's the front page.
Dave Anthony
Yeah. We're still on the front page. Yeah.
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Dave Anthony
A gentleman from Natchitoches.
Jen Cobra
Let me correct you right there, sir. You are not close. That word is Nakadish.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Jen Cobra
I know.
Dave Anthony
Jen, stop me.
Jen Cobra
I didn't do it.
Gareth Reynolds
Wait, Dave, none of those letters are there.
Dave Anthony
Jen.
Gareth Reynolds
Dave. Let me preface it. Jen. On this show, there. Dave's been hurt by people at our shows shouting at him about pronunciations. So you're not coming in on the ground floor of this operation. And in addition to that, to acknowledge the corn. That word does not sound possible. I promise you.
Jen Cobra
I do a whole bunch of jokes about it.
Dave Anthony
Let me do. Let me. Let me spell it. Let me spell it.
Jen Cobra
N A, T, C, H, I, T, O, C, H, E, S. And now say it. Nakadish.
Dave Anthony
No.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay. No. Wrong. You know what that is? That's the Worcestershire sauce of Louisiana.
Dave Anthony
Yes, it is.
Jen Cobra
That's my joke.
Gareth Reynolds
That is what it is.
Jen Cobra
I was in Massachusetts. I was looking for Worcester, and they were like, you know, we don't Cross watches. It's called Wooster. Like, rooster will win a W. Some people say Worcester. Like you're a wuss Worcester or Worcester. But nobody ever says watches. And I'm like. I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna take you down to Louisiana and bring you to Natchitoches and see what the you call it. I'm gonna drive you to Chocolatoulas street in New Orleans and see what the you call it. We spell go with an X. Like, don't play with me. I'm Louisiana.
Gareth Reynolds
No flies on me. Jenkober.com.
Jen Cobra
That'S right.
Dave Anthony
All flies on me.
Gareth Reynolds
All flies on me is gonna be my special where I'm gonna do the boss. The Massachusetts version of your stuff.
Jen Cobra
It's literally. It's literally. Natchitoches is the town that has the little Christmas festival. It's where they film Steel Magnolias.
Dave Anthony
Oh. Oh, well, now we know.
Jen Cobra
There it is.
Gareth Reynolds
That's my favorite film about a diabetic. Go ahead, Dave.
Dave Anthony
A. A gentleman from Nakadish Painters informed us while in the city that a Frenchman, a gentleman of ex. Excellent practical talents and of superior scientific attainments, intends to plant in the coming year several acres of poppies to manufacture opium.
Gareth Reynolds
This is such a great era when you're like, my plan is to make heroin over here. How's everyone doing?
Jen Cobra
A Frenchman from Louisiana. And now Natchitoches is north Louisiana. We don't really claim that down here. It's like the top of the boot. I'm down here in the. In the.
Gareth Reynolds
You're in the heel.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jen Cobra
So that. That's the top of the boot. You might as well be Arkansas. That's why he's there in Arkansas, because it's very close.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
And my plan is to grow. I'm going to make heroin here.
Jen Cobra
I'm going to make heroin, opium right here.
Gareth Reynolds
Pretty straightforward.
Dave Anthony
He says that an acre of poppies will make £50 of opium worth 15 to 20 dol dollars a pound.
Gareth Reynolds
That's great that he's like, wow, I will be a drug dealer. You're more than welcome. Huh?
Jen Cobra
He will be providing many jobs, right? Is that what it's saying?
Gareth Reynolds
I call it. We will mix it eventually with our other crop called cotton, and together we'll call the two Opium and oxycontin.
Dave Anthony
We hope to hear a favorable, favorable report of this experiment next fall.
Gareth Reynolds
None of the people we gave it to came back to report they've all been missing.
Dave Anthony
A young man. A young man eloped with A young girl from the vicinity of Springfield, Ohio. Pursued by the irate father of the girl, he overtook them standing by the brink of a swollen stream through which they could not pass to the other side.
Gareth Reynolds
Is this written from the perspective of a kidney stone?
Dave Anthony
I don't know what just happened.
Gareth Reynolds
It just seems very strange.
Dave Anthony
It's very weird.
Gareth Reynolds
It's a swollen stream and yet I can't get past.
Dave Anthony
Like, I don't. I don't understand how they can't get by him.
Gareth Reynolds
But until an iron pen came down and broke me into a hundred little mes.
Jen Cobra
That is hysterical. Oh, God.
Dave Anthony
Jesus.
Jen Cobra
All right.
Dave Anthony
In this dilemma, like Lord Yulin's daughter, the heroine preferred to meet the rage.
Gareth Reynolds
Someone's a heroine.
Dave Anthony
No, no.
Gareth Reynolds
Francois, it's me from Nekobeach.
Dave Anthony
We know. Francois, go away.
Gareth Reynolds
It is spelled Nietzsche with a radish at the end.
Dave Anthony
The heroine is preferred to meet the rage of the stormy skies, but not an angry father. I don't know what that means. But instead of plunging into the roaring flood and drowning his bride while one lovely hand was around her lover, as did the chief of. Oh. Oh. This is like he's comparing it to some folklore thing.
Gareth Reynolds
Right?
Dave Anthony
The chief of Old's Isle, the young eloper, simply pulled out a big blunderbuss and drawing a bean on the old man swore he would institute a view of daylight through his composition in less than two minutes if he didn't climb out of that, like, a thousand gun. I mean, what's happening here is he keeps using all these phrases in. In quotations, and it's just making it.
Gareth Reynolds
But his blunderbuss is a musket. So he pulled out his musket. Yeah.
Dave Anthony
So he pulled out his musk and threatened the old man.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Dave Anthony
The old man immediately climbed and the happy pair returned to Springfield to be solidified.
Jen Cobra
We gave him some poppy seeds.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. His last words to the couple was, do whatever the you want. I'm gonna ride this pony.
Dave Anthony
You should be able to kill. You should be able to kill some writers. That. That's what I took away from that.
Jen Cobra
Wow.
Dave Anthony
Be able to murder them.
Gareth Reynolds
I don't know if that's.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, it's like a Southern thing. You can kill a writer if they really don't write well.
Gareth Reynolds
I mean, that's what. That's what.
Jen Cobra
That's what happened to MSNBC down here. You notice they don't have a Southern cube yet.
Dave Anthony
Thank you.
Gareth Reynolds
Is that right? I thought that's what. James Carville was all alone.
Jen Cobra
He is alone.
Gareth Reynolds
He's Just sitting there.
Jen Cobra
He had to go marry a Republican just to be able to say what he said.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, right. Yeah. And now he's down there. Like, he's lost, like, many steps, but he's just, like, trying to still do turns of phrases from there. People like, I'm not sure that makes sense. He's like, I was hotter than a crawfish outside of a rock factory.
Dave Anthony
But, Garrett, that is hot. No, that's hot. Because the crawfish is. That means the crawfish is not in water.
Gareth Reynolds
And it's better than a toilet that couldn't flush twice. They're like, james, your Internet's bad. No, it isn't. He's like, I'm sorry.
Jen Cobra
That man's collection of LSU gear alone is.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, my God.
Dave Anthony
I could imagine.
Gareth Reynolds
I mean, I can't shame him for what he dresses like. That's literally what I wear to the grocery store. But every time I do see him, I'm like, sir, you have milkshake on your news shirt. Like, I know you're mailing it in, but holy.
Dave Anthony
I was. My son has a ex. LSU picture is a coach of his. And I was over at this house in the garage where he does his, like, instructions. And I was just sitting there, and I looked over, and he's got a purple fly swatter. I'm just like, jesus, dude.
Gareth Reynolds
Everything just.
Jen Cobra
It's.
Dave Anthony
It doesn't have to be everything.
Jen Cobra
I am living in Baton Rouge right now, and I am telling you, the grocery store is all decorated in, like, what. What does Albertsons have to do with the football team?
Gareth Reynolds
I don't know.
Jen Cobra
This is. Everybody needs to support is what I keep getting told. And I don't know what to do because I really live in Los Angeles. But the lucky thing is the Lakers and LSU are the same.
Dave Anthony
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
That is lucky.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Jen Cobra
As long as I just buy purple and gold things without any kind of writing on them, I'm okay.
Gareth Reynolds
I lived in. I took a year in Idaho, and I just lived. And I had a Boise State sweater I bought at the airport, and I would wear it to the store, and someone would come up to me and be like, if you can, and blew that. And I'd be like, what? And then I'd remember what I was wearing. I'd be like, I just. You take the shortest route. I'd be like, he's out of his mind. And they'd be like, I don't know if he's out of his mind, but his foot's hurt. I'd be like his foot is bad. Jesus Christ. In Albertsons, I'd be like, yeah, it's.
Dave Anthony
Well, sometimes Boise State should be shut down because you shouldn't be allowed to have a blue field.
Gareth Reynolds
I agree.
Dave Anthony
It's absolutely criminal.
Jen Cobra
I agree bluegrass was in Kentucky.
Gareth Reynolds
I agree. They stole it.
Dave Anthony
Okay, so where were we? Was this the crawfish one that I just said?
Gareth Reynolds
No. Is there crawfish? I just alluded to crawfish in a regional.
Dave Anthony
Oh, yeah, that was you. Okay, never mind. So the cook, I was totally confused. I was like, where's the crawfish recipe?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, it really did.
Dave Anthony
But I gotta say, and I think I've said this before, like, one of my favorite things to eat in the world is crawfish in Louisiana.
Jen Cobra
Oh my God. So good.
Dave Anthony
It's just.
Jen Cobra
I have it. I haven't really worked to a science. Like I don't. I have a twist and suck method.
Gareth Reynolds
That is one move. See, it's one where. And I'm gonna say you people. And I mean it in a non offensive. It's when you guys are like, you gotta suck the brain. That's where I'm like, I'm out.
Dave Anthony
It's not the brain, you idiot.
Jen Cobra
No, it's not the brain. You're really sucking the spice out of the body cavity, by the way.
Gareth Reynolds
That's what this guy told me behind Dunkin Donuts one time. That's what the guy said. A Dunkin Donuts trash like the dumpsters. He was like, don't think of it like you're sucking the brain out. Just like it's a milkshake for my nuts. I was like, sir, you promise you'll give me munchkins? He was like, yeah, I work here. Long story short, I had to pay for my munchkins. Anyway, let's get back to the paper.
Jen Cobra
America runs undone.
Dave Anthony
Anyway, anyway, that's Garris crawfish story.
Gareth Reynolds
Anyway, that's my crawfish story. It took place in New Jersey.
Jen Cobra
Jesus Christ.
Dave Anthony
The cook of a French nobleman whose chateau is in the south of France had a monkey which was allowed to free reign, free range of the kitchen.
Gareth Reynolds
We do the dollop and this show. And most times there's something that chemically happens to me when I hear that a man owned a monkey. It just. The joy I feel just. It's terrible. But also the. It just steps up everything. When a guy's like, and I got a monkey. You're like, well, this is a good movie.
Jen Cobra
You have to watch Chimp Crazy.
Gareth Reynolds
I tried to watch Chimp Crazy. It's a little too chimp crazy.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, I couldn't get.
Jen Cobra
But it did make me want a little tiny monkey. Oh, I don't want to say that.
Gareth Reynolds
Out loud, but I. I was.
Jen Cobra
I would never. I would never. I would never. I would never.
Gareth Reynolds
But there's nothing wrong with wanting to put a capuchin in a diaper and take it to the mall with you.
Jen Cobra
Thank you.
Gareth Reynolds
You're right to feel it. I feel it. Are you kidding me? I want to live in a cage with nothing but monkeys. How about that?
Jen Cobra
Oh, my God.
Gareth Reynolds
I want to start shaving myself till I'm covered in fur and they think I'm their papa. How about that?
Jen Cobra
I mean, they're so adorable.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes. It's what a baby should be.
Jen Cobra
But you can't.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Jen Cobra
And they don't talk.
Gareth Reynolds
No. But they communicate. Listen. I listen. There's nothing wrong with sitting here playing with your nipples until milk comes out of them because you think you can be the leader of a capuchin family. Dave, you've said it a hundred times. You've said it so many times. You got Merchant. But we're not supposed to do it. Okay? There's nothing wrong with squatting over and walking like a monkey man and living in a tree and sleeping in a tree to show the capuchins that you're one of them. And if the government comes here just pretending that you're, you know, go and hide in a little cellar you made for yourself and call it the monkey dungeon. There's nothing wrong with that. That's expected. But you can't do it. But feeling it is. Right. So what keeps saying it, what you.
Jen Cobra
Have to do to. To sort of balance that feeling is a lot of self tanning.
Gareth Reynolds
Self tanning.
Jen Cobra
Self tanning makes everything better.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes. And what I. And what I do a lot of times is I'll go to the zoo, take my shirt off, and just sit outside the enclosure for a long period of time. And then when it's about an hour left and you got nothing to lose, lose the bottoms. That's fine. Worst case scenario, they throw you out when they're closing anyway. Dave keeps saying it. And he's right.
Jen Cobra
It.
Gareth Reynolds
He's right to say it. But you don't do it. That's what you don't do. All right. Three, two, one. Squarespace. We're back.
Jen Cobra
Holy.
Dave Anthony
So a free. So the monkey has free range in the kitchen and which.
Gareth Reynolds
Right.
Dave Anthony
That's the best place to allow a monkey to have free ring animated.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes. Let him Disney Legal.
Dave Anthony
Yes. And which was so intelligent that by severe training, its natural propensity to mischief had been subdued, and it was even taught to perform useful services, such as plucking foul, for instance, at. Which was uncommonly expert.
Gareth Reynolds
All right, Jen, are you gonna flag it?
Jen Cobra
There's a lot wrong with this.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes.
Jen Cobra
First of all, I do like how they're making it. Like working in a kitchen. Like, the way it. It makes prisoners, like, go straight. Have you ever seen that?
Dave Anthony
Right?
Gareth Reynolds
Yes. Yes.
Jen Cobra
It does the same thing for monkeys. They're mischievous and. And putting them in kitchen work somehow contains them. I do like that. And of course, they're good at plucking foul. All they do is pick gnats off of each other all goddamn day in the jungle. That's their natural propensity, is to pluck shit, which on scare people as. You don't want to be plucked by a monkey.
Dave Anthony
Hold on. I do want to be plucked by a monkey.
Gareth Reynolds
Dave, Dave, come on now. Keep.
Dave Anthony
I'll turn my mic back off.
Gareth Reynolds
Dave, Dave, Dave, this is a slope. What if Riverside. Riverside comes in, is like. This is the first show we've ever shut down. Here's what I'm going to flag. Two things. The first is the term severe training. Don't love it. Don't love the term severe training. Training is one thing. Severe training, I think, is a shorthand for abuse. The second is, imagine if you were at this fucking guy's house, you're eating some duck, and then all of a sudden, he reveals to you who the sou is. And the sous chef is just this little fucking chimp.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
And you're just like, yeah, I'm in. I'm in, I'm in.
Dave Anthony
I'm like, the monkey did this. And he's like, yeah. I'm like, let's.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes.
Dave Anthony
He's the sous chef.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes.
Dave Anthony
That's amazing.
Gareth Reynolds
The hardest part of the dish is getting the cook to not jerk off every time.
Dave Anthony
And the monkey.
Gareth Reynolds
Outside, the monkey. It was hard to train on the monkey, but the cook himself is horrendous. And the worst part is he calls it making the sauce.
Dave Anthony
Okay. One fine morning, a pair of partridges were given to it to pluck, and the monkey took them to an open window of the kitchen, which looked directly on the park.
Gareth Reynolds
Come on, damn it. I wanted.
Jen Cobra
Were the partridges in pear trees.
Gareth Reynolds
They better.
Dave Anthony
Oh, God.
Gareth Reynolds
That's the only way they. Come on.
Jen Cobra
That's the only time I've heard of them.
Gareth Reynolds
I know.
Dave Anthony
He soon finished one, which he laid on the outer Edge of the window and then went quietly on with the other.
Gareth Reynolds
That's so wild.
Dave Anthony
A hawk.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, a hawk.
Dave Anthony
Enters the story. A hawk, which had been watching his proceedings from a neighboring tree, darted down upon the plucked partridge and in a minute was up in the tree again, greedily devouring his prey.
Jen Cobra
What did that monkey do?
Gareth Reynolds
He plucked the hawk.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, let's. The consternation.
Gareth Reynolds
I just for a minute I was like, oh, that's the end of the partridge. I forgot we're dealing with a monkey.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, it's a monkey with the wrong little hairy person. You eagle. The consternation of the monkey at this untoward adventure may be easily imagined. He knew he should be severely whipped for losing it. See, you're right. So this is a.
Gareth Reynolds
It's what we call severe training.
Dave Anthony
You will keep being beaten until you can make the business.
Gareth Reynolds
No, no, no, no, no severe training. We're not b. Animal.
Jen Cobra
But we do want him to make biscuits.
Gareth Reynolds
You're very subject to the idea of him making biscuits.
Dave Anthony
Huh? He hopped about in great distress for some minutes. Then suddenly a bright thought struck him. Seizing the remaining.
Gareth Reynolds
Getting in the head of the monkey for a journalist is dynamite.
Dave Anthony
Amazing. Seizing the remaining partridge, he went to work with great energy and stripped off the feathers. Then he laid it on the ledge just where he had placed the other, and closing one of the shutters, concealed himself behind it. Monkey trap.
Gareth Reynolds
Wow. He just pulled the monkey trap. This monkey is way too smart to just be plucking.
Dave Anthony
Well, you don't bring your bird into my monkey land.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. Is that.
Dave Anthony
I think so. I think it is. I think it is.
Jen Cobra
Is that the end?
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, no.
Dave Anthony
Oh, no, no.
Gareth Reynolds
This monkey's. This hawk's.
Dave Anthony
The hawk, which by this time had finished his meal very soon swooped down upon the partridge, but hardly had his claws touched the bird. When the monkey sprang upon from behind the shutter, the hawk's head was instantly rung and the monkey, with a triumphant chuckle, proceeded to strip off the feathers.
Gareth Reynolds
Unreal.
Dave Anthony
Yes.
Jen Cobra
Of a hawk.
Gareth Reynolds
And now we're eating hawk.
Dave Anthony
Now we're eating hawk. Yeah, we are.
Jen Cobra
Wow. It's a tougher meat, but.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, I was just gonna say it's.
Jen Cobra
Just like he's jerking off into the sauce anyway, so we're fine.
Dave Anthony
That's a marinade Zay monkey has improvised.
Jen Cobra
The protein breaks it down.
Gareth Reynolds
The protein breaks it down. What you're having now is hawk with what we call the monkey sauce.
Jen Cobra
It was literally the first hawk.
Gareth Reynolds
Jen, Jen. Thank you.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Just plucked on the windowsill to be hawked up. Well done.
Jen Cobra
Oh God.
Dave Anthony
All right, this done. The monkey carried the two picked fouls. Of course it is. There's got to be more.
Gareth Reynolds
This is epic. This is like on the road.
Dave Anthony
He carried the two pick fouls to his master with a confident and self satisfied air which seemed to say, here are two birds, sir, just what you gave me.
Gareth Reynolds
But the cook up with monkey dialogue in his head.
Dave Anthony
You can get inside the monkey head?
Gareth Reynolds
I don't think so.
Dave Anthony
A good writer gets in the monkey head. What the cook said on finding one of the partridges converted into a hawk is more than we are able to tell now. You don't know now that the humans involved, you can't say what happened, how to end it.
Gareth Reynolds
His weird little fake story. Maybe he didn't even know how to stick the landing. He was like. And what the cook said, I gotta go.
Dave Anthony
I'm out.
Gareth Reynolds
I'm too tired for coming up with monkey pitches.
Jen Cobra
And the first turducken was born.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, yeah.
Jen Cobra
It's a partridge inside of a hawk inside of an eagle.
Gareth Reynolds
We call it pawhawking. That would be a much better way for the song to end. And a partridge and a hawk. The monkey plucked on the ninth day of Christmas.
Jen Cobra
Four killer hawks.
Gareth Reynolds
One beaten monkey with French guy and a hawk and a crawfish and a cream sauce. And the guy at Dunkin Donuts promised munchkins. Wow, that is an awesome tale that I hope is true.
Dave Anthony
I hope so too. I love to an act for the better. Regulation of public schools in cities and towns has been passed both houses by this.
Gareth Reynolds
This feels more fictitious.
Jen Cobra
By both houses they mean there are.
Gareth Reynolds
Two houses in this town, both of.
Jen Cobra
Them the greens and the whites.
Gareth Reynolds
And they decided, yeah, okay.
Jen Cobra
All right then.
Gareth Reynolds
Then it shall be.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, better is good. As used in this connection, better is a word of comparison. But it would puzzle the oldest granarian in America to find a rule by which comparison can be applied to nothing. There is no regulation now whatever. Public schools in cities and towns. And until there is some regulation.
Gareth Reynolds
So the bar is so low that this is just being considered some improvement. So better, they're saying is a term that doesn't even really make any sense because there's no. There's nothing to compare it to.
Dave Anthony
So they're saying better doesn't mean.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, it's kind of some word better don't mean.
Dave Anthony
Right.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. Yeah.
Dave Anthony
That's for.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes, it's James Carville on msnbc. Okay, well that's good also. Again, that ship has sailed. So now we do know what Better would be we just don't provide it. So. It's an interesting term.
Dave Anthony
Oh. Remedy for smallpox.
Gareth Reynolds
Bite them off.
Jen Cobra
I was gonna say Windex.
Gareth Reynolds
Twist them and then suck the brains out.
Dave Anthony
Get your monkey on it.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. The m. Have a monkey plucked.
Jen Cobra
You know what hulk feathers is good for?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Jen Cobra
Small. You better hope you don't get the monkey pox.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, this is delay. Yeah. Really? This is delicious. What is this? This is a human picked smallpox from a monkey.
Dave Anthony
A correspondent from Stockton, California writes, I here with a append a recipe which has been used to my knowledge in hundreds of cases. It will prevent or cure the smallpox through. The pittings are filling though. The pittings are filling. Okay.
Gareth Reynolds
What though? The pittings are filling.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
This better not be talking about doing what we were just joking about. They're like gushers of the body.
Jen Cobra
Ugh. Stop it.
Gareth Reynolds
I'm Jen. Let's cook. Come on.
Dave Anthony
Yeah. No one's cooking right now.
Gareth Reynolds
Come on.
Dave Anthony
Everyone's just upset.
Gareth Reynolds
Relax.
Jen Cobra
The word pox is so old.
Dave Anthony
Tasty.
Jen Cobra
Delicious.
Dave Anthony
Exactly.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Dave Anthony
When Jenner discovered cowpox in England, the world of science hurled an avalanche of fame upon his head. But when the most scientific school of medicine in the world, that of Perry, published this recipe as I can't read that for smallpox, it passed unheated. It is as unfailing as late and conquers. In every instance, it is harmless. When taken by a well person. It will also cure scarlet fever.
Gareth Reynolds
So this is bullshit.
Dave Anthony
What now what are you saying is that vaccines work?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Dave Anthony
Right.
Gareth Reynolds
This is rfkish. Now he's got a way for you to figure out how to get rid of your smallpox.
Jen Cobra
As long as you don't got nothing for this here polio.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, Yeah. I mean, that guy was just going on and on. Also, it'll kill scarlet fever monkey into shape, add RSV and shingles.
Dave Anthony
Did you say monkey? Is there a dead monkey I can drive home?
Jen Cobra
It's the same stuff that cures COVID 19.
Gareth Reynolds
Oddly enough, the monkey's just plucking the. Like the pheasant. And then like rfk just hits it over the head with a hammer and just eats the monkey hole. That's what I'll be having.
Jen Cobra
I feel something in my brain. I think it's a worm. Oh, it could be that monkey.
Gareth Reynolds
That worm in his head was like. And then he's like, root beer will kill you.
Jen Cobra
That worm was. That worm in his head was starving to death.
Gareth Reynolds
And then they said, damn. And they said the worm just died in there. Which is also I'M like, really? Yeah, I'm pretty sure they just were like, yeah, it's dead. So he's just like a bottle of tequila. He's just sitting there with like a little worm. Just like, dead. I would not. I'd be like, we need to.
Jen Cobra
I think we need to go in after.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, I think we gotta go ahead and make sure. Let's double check.
Jen Cobra
Let's see what's going on in that dude's head.
Gareth Reynolds
Hello. Hello.
Dave Anthony
Here is the recipe as I have used it and cured my children of Scarlet Phoebe. Here it is. I might use it to cure smallpox.
Jen Cobra
You got a recipe for it?
Gareth Reynolds
Okay, that.
Jen Cobra
That seems safe.
Gareth Reynolds
It's the buttermilk biscuits.
Dave Anthony
Oh, this is. This is. Yeah, you're right. This is. This is crazy. This is RFK Jr. Sulfate of zinc. One grain. Talk. Fox glove. One grain.
Jen Cobra
I have newt.
Gareth Reynolds
I have newt. Fox glove. Do you guys have bat wing? Fox glove.
Jen Cobra
Is this cream of tartar anywh?
Gareth Reynolds
Sorry. Does anyone have that? I'm looking for corn of witch.
Dave Anthony
It's got to be mixed by a monkey.
Jen Cobra
I acknowledge the corn. I acknowledge the corn.
Gareth Reynolds
I acknowledge the corn. This is going to be an uphill battle.
Dave Anthony
A teaspoon of sugar.
Gareth Reynolds
How's everyone liking their vaccine?
Dave Anthony
Mixed with two tablespoons of water.
Jen Cobra
Spoonful of sugar. Helps the vaccine go down. The vaccine go down.
Gareth Reynolds
Feeding this to a smallpox person. I'm sorry about this.
Dave Anthony
I mean, when thoroughly mixed.
Gareth Reynolds
They were out of box of glove.
Dave Anthony
Take a spoonful every hour. Either disease will disappear in 12 hours or you will vomit. You'll die. You'll. You'll bleed out.
Gareth Reynolds
Or your small pox get big and.
Jen Cobra
You'Ll have large box.
Gareth Reynolds
You have big, big pucks. You're gonna have some of the biggest packs you've ever seen.
Jen Cobra
Macro box.
Gareth Reynolds
We got big old pox for a child.
Dave Anthony
Smaller doses. If counties would compel their physicians to use this, there would be no need of pest houses. If you value advice and experience, use this for that terrible disease. That is.
Gareth Reynolds
Wow, crazy houses.
Jen Cobra
That is some Arkansas right there.
Gareth Reynolds
That's not great.
Jen Cobra
You know what? Arkansas is the only place in this country I've ever been offered possum to eat.
Gareth Reynolds
And after.
Jen Cobra
After a show. It was delicious.
Gareth Reynolds
You did eat it.
Jen Cobra
You put anything in a crock pot with a brown gravy, it's gonna be good.
Gareth Reynolds
They call it chicken of the attic.
Jen Cobra
Oh, I don't know what an attic is, but.
Gareth Reynolds
That'S what happens when you take too much opium. You become a drug addict.
Dave Anthony
It's an above basement.
Jen Cobra
Yeah, well, in Louisiana we don't have basements. You dig three feet, you hit water.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, it's. Imagine if the ducks.
Jen Cobra
We don't even bury dead people. We do that above ground too.
Gareth Reynolds
This is going to be hard for us to convey. What an Atticus.
Dave Anthony
I'm realizing you're saying to me this is a place we shouldn't live. That's all I keep hearing.
Gareth Reynolds
By the way, your burials, I'm actually into there. In Arkansas.
Jen Cobra
Well, in Arkansas, the burials, I bet they can hit the ground. I bet they are underground there.
Gareth Reynolds
You're just doing mausoleums or what?
Jen Cobra
Yeah, well, in Louisiana they got above ground. Yeah, it's like. It's like above ground tombs. Yeah, you get buried above ground.
Gareth Reynolds
What about pools you don't have? You don't have in ground?
Jen Cobra
Pools there they do have in ground.
Gareth Reynolds
So we have the technology to put pools underground, but the humans, we got to go above. Your honor, judge.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, I'm calling on the whole area.
Gareth Reynolds
I mean good Lord Mormon to get.
Jen Cobra
Her square nose out of my face.
Gareth Reynolds
I think we're all saying the same thing. We will start putting the dead in pools.
Dave Anthony
It's a crock pot thing.
Jen Cobra
It's called Deadpool.
Gareth Reynolds
We'll be right back. Squarespace.com.
Dave Anthony
An individual in Berlin undertook on a wager to sit for four hours in a barber's window without moving in place of the wax figure customarily displayed there. What is happening?
Jen Cobra
Has just been in the poppy fields. He stared at a wall.
Dave Anthony
Hey, we gotta get rid of the wax figure we got here. Is anybody.
Gareth Reynolds
So we just fired the wax figure. I would love to sit in the barber chair for a while. My wife has been very difficult for me to live with as of late.
Jen Cobra
She's living her Olympic life.
Gareth Reynolds
She's living her best life in the living room and making my life hell.
Jen Cobra
All I do is sit in this office.
Gareth Reynolds
You want, you want my life? You want. Why don't you go sit at the barber shop's place in the window for four hours and see how you like it. Gabriella.
Dave Anthony
At three in the after. But it doesn't say why the wax figure is not there. Okay.
Gareth Reynolds
They unionized.
Dave Anthony
At three in the afternoon, he appeared at his post dressed in a white sheet with a huge wig on his head.
Gareth Reynolds
Easy.
Dave Anthony
Surrounded by a fez cap.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, so just a normal person in a barber chair.
Dave Anthony
It sounds like. Yeah, well, it sounds like grand poobah.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. If the clan met the.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, but it's Germany, so it's not the clan.
Jen Cobra
It'S not.
Dave Anthony
Not the clan.
Gareth Reynolds
Here's the German reaction to that. That's one of the nicest things you've ever said about it.
Jen Cobra
Thank you very much.
Dave Anthony
Every effort was made by the bystanders to make him show some sign of life. Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
So it's like the British Guards, where they're just kind of, like, trying. Yeah, Razia. It's fun. It's Germany.
Dave Anthony
It's fun.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, it's a good time.
Jen Cobra
Springtime.
Gareth Reynolds
The party.
Dave Anthony
Street boys were tempted by the promise we had.
Gareth Reynolds
The street boys. That's not a musical. But I thought maybe. I thought maybe more would happen. But you're all right to not do anything?
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
No, we had a Street boys.
Dave Anthony
Street boys were tempted by the promise of large rewards to make their most ridiculous grimaces and address him and all sorts of funny spectacles. But all in vain. He remained immovable until the clock struck seven.
Gareth Reynolds
When he rose dead.
Dave Anthony
When he rose, bowed gravely to the astonished crowd and retired into the shop. How is this in a newspaper in Louisiana or Arkansas?
Gareth Reynolds
It's a good point.
Dave Anthony
Arc of arc of Philadelphia, D.C. you have better things to cover.
Gareth Reynolds
You have to. If you're talking about world news.
Dave Anthony
This is the worst world news I've ever read.
Gareth Reynolds
Some German guy just sitting in a barbershop window chair.
Jen Cobra
Yeah, but this you have to understand. Nothing's going on in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Gareth Reynolds
Nothing's going on anywhere this day. Yes, yes, yes.
Jen Cobra
So what could have been going on in 1869?
Gareth Reynolds
They're literally, like very.
Jen Cobra
No, there was one guy, he just sat in a chair and started a wall on.
Gareth Reynolds
God damn it.
Jen Cobra
Put that in the paper.
Gareth Reynolds
Put that in there. Hold on.
Jen Cobra
Dumbass. Sat in a chair, stared at the wall. Probably what had to be four hours. You put that in the paper.
Gareth Reynolds
Did you hear about the street boys? They were walking down the street, going where? The street boys. That was it. That was basically.
Jen Cobra
They had shells on their back and they kept eating pizza. It was very.
Gareth Reynolds
Michelangelo. All right, you got one more, David?
Dave Anthony
Yeah. This is just one of those one sentence things.
Gareth Reynolds
These are the best.
Jen Cobra
Oh, God.
Dave Anthony
Especially Shun Whiskey, Fast Women and the United States were the dying words of a man who was hanged in Canada the other day.
Gareth Reynolds
That's how you do it.
Jen Cobra
What were the words again?
Dave Anthony
Especially Shun Whiskey, Fast Women and the United States.
Gareth Reynolds
That's how you do it.
Jen Cobra
Especially Sean.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, Sean. I disagree with the first two.
Gareth Reynolds
I push back, but I like the bold. I like the idea, like last words, especially a hanging. You have a real opportunity.
Dave Anthony
Yeah. You do.
Gareth Reynolds
You know what I mean?
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Jen Cobra
And as a Canadian, to take that to be like you United States, so early on, I mean, 1869, we hadn't really. I mean, we'd done a lot of bad, but we hadn't really gotten deep in. We'd only been a country for 100 years.
Gareth Reynolds
Anyone who thought the US was bad back then, we were just like nuts. We're about to hit the nitro button. Yeah, last words can be great. Like a hanging last word. Like if your last words were just. Mine are just be like, my throat hurts.
Jen Cobra
But you know what, let me say this. There's not a lot of Canadians out there in the quotable universe.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Jen Cobra
Not a lot of Canucks out there that people are just quoting. Right.
Gareth Reynolds
So nobody writes down apologizing.
Dave Anthony
What's your last word, sir? Eh?
Gareth Reynolds
I'm sorry. I'm pretty. I'm. We're terribly sorry about that. This was a great misunderstanding.
Jen Cobra
I don't know what this is about.
Gareth Reynolds
Oops. I hope I don't hurt your rope. I hope your rope's reusable. Gosh, these gallows is pretty tall. Well done. Nice built structure. Idiot Canadians. You don't know how to die. Right. Go to the U.S. well, Jen, thank you for joining us with your crystal light, with your hawk. To us. People could see my special all flies on me. But your specials, no flies on me. Gencobra.com Absolutely. Thanks for coming back. Now, I'm guessing you thought the last paper crazier than this paper, but still it does show you. I mean, a monkey chef. Not bad.
Jen Cobra
No. Listen, if you can have. If you can have, fight for men's rights and get a recipe for smallpox. I feel like it's a banner day.
Gareth Reynolds
I. Just to be clear, this was a recipe to stop smallpox. Nobody is making me recipe for smallpox. I shouldn't have eaten that.
Dave Anthony
Oh, you sent a recipe to stop it. Oh me. I did not hear you.
Gareth Reynolds
Did you put glove fox in this? All right, Jen, thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Jen Cobra
Thanks. Of course, guys. Thanks.
Gareth Reynolds
Some of these days you'll miss me, honey. Some of these days. Oh, you like this podcast, do you? Then you're gonna love me on the road doing stand up. Go to garethreynolds.com if you are in Richmond Heights, Missouri. St. Louis. Let's be honest. January 7th, January 8th. Indianapolis, Batavia. Batavia. Someone said online. Illinois, January 9th through the 11th. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, January 12th. Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 15th through the 18th. Then I'll be in Buffalo, New York on January 30th. Rutherford, New Jersey. January 31st through February 1st Brea, California February 7th Eureka, California February 11th San Francisco. February 12th Sacramento. February 13th Naples March 24th Charlotte, North Carolina. April 13th, April 14th I will be in Raleigh, North Carolina. Virginia Beach April 15th Richmond, Virginia, April 16th Lutherville. Basically Baltimore, I think. April 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th. It cuts off there. And Winnipeg this summer in May. Go to garethreynolds.com for tickets and information. You're the Gear force. We need you. Gear Force. Hashtag Air Force Gear Force.
Summary of "The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds" Episode 108: "The Past Times with Jen Kober" Release Date: January 17, 2025
In Episode 108 of The Dollop, titled "The Past Times with Jen Kober," comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds are joined by guest Jen Kober. The trio embarks on their comedic exploration of historical events by dissecting a peculiar newspaper from the year 1869. True to The Dollop's format, the hosts blend humor with historical analysis, offering listeners an entertaining yet informative experience.
The core of the episode revolves around unraveling the contents of an 1869 newspaper from Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Dave Anthony reads various articles, which the hosts and Jen humorously interpret and expand upon.
Overview: The newspaper details a court case involving a tenant who defaults on rent.
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Overview: Discussion on how streets and roads were named during the 1800s.
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Overview: A whimsical story about a monkey trained to assist in a French nobleman's kitchen.
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Overview: Examination of outdated medical remedies featured in the newspaper.
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Throughout the episode, Jen Kober not only contributes to the comedic discourse but also promotes her own stand-up comedy special.
Description: Jen shares her unique method of preparing Crystal Light in a "Wonder Woman cup," providing humorous tips on making it frothy and cold.
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Description: Jen discusses her comedy special, "No Flies on Me," recorded at Brad Garrett's club in Las Vegas, emphasizing its humor and availability for free on her website.
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The episode is peppered with improvisational humor, miscommunications, and playful jabs among the hosts.
Description: Early in the episode, Gareth experiences microphone issues, leading to humorous exchanges about sound quality.
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Description: The hosts draw parallels between historical anecdotes and contemporary societal issues, infusing satire and wit.
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Episode 108 of The Dollop successfully marries history with humor, offering listeners a delightful journey through a bygone era's peculiarities. With the addition of Jen Kober, the episode gains fresh comedic perspectives, enhancing the overall experience. Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds continue to excel in making history accessible and entertaining, ensuring that each episode of The Dollop remains both educational and amusing.
Note: This summary intentionally omits advertisements, intros, outros, and non-content sections to focus solely on the episode's substantive discussions and comedic elements.